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1. Root – Programmable bank account for software developers (root.co.za)
1015 points by s_dev on May 3, 2017 | 409 comments
2. Prepack helps make JavaScript code more efficient (prepack.io)
836 points by jimarcey on May 3, 2017 | 224 comments
3. Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy (reuters.com)
619 points by chollida1 on May 3, 2017 | 460 comments
4. MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console (github.com/rastapasta)
389 points by anc84 on May 3, 2017 | 65 comments
5. SCOTUS Rejects Guilty Until Proven Innocent – Can't Keep Money from the Innocent (forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice)
437 points by rrauenza on May 3, 2017 | 186 comments
6. Google accuses Uber of creating a fake company in order to steal its tech (businessinsider.com)
356 points by golfer on May 3, 2017 | 170 comments
7. How to Get into VR (blog.ycombinator.com)
305 points by vincentschen on May 3, 2017 | 212 comments
8. Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
481 points by eof on May 3, 2017 | 209 comments
9. Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker (coneapp.io)
418 points by _kush on May 3, 2017 | 151 comments
10. Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code (sourcegraph.com)
216 points by MetalMatze on May 3, 2017 | 82 comments
11. How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (1998) [pdf] (wisc.edu)
281 points by therealrootuser on May 3, 2017 | 41 comments
12. OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch application firewall (github.com/evilsocket)
319 points by dvko on May 2, 2017 | 103 comments
13. FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill (techcrunch.com)
294 points by pearlsteinj on May 3, 2017 | 212 comments
14. Pilosa: open source, distributed bitmap index in Go (github.com/pilosa)
183 points by jaffee on May 3, 2017 | 22 comments
15. Ted Seides Concedes Bet with Warren Buffett (bloomberg.com)
182 points by greenburger on May 3, 2017 | 130 comments
16. Introducing Yelp's GraphQL API (yelp.com)
202 points by syrusakbary on May 3, 2017 | 51 comments
17. The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run (home.cern)
192 points by JumpCrisscross on May 2, 2017 | 44 comments
18. ‘Reined-In’ N.S.A. Still Collected 151M Phone Records in 2016 (nytimes.com)
188 points by Jerry2 on May 2, 2017 | 77 comments
19. Uncomplicate: Number crunching in Clojure (uncomplicate.org)
87 points by tosh on May 3, 2017 | 8 comments
20. Where oil rigs go to die (theguardian.com)
208 points by camtarn on May 2, 2017 | 44 comments
21. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (1899) (gutenberg.org)
108 points by i_feel_great on May 3, 2017 | 75 comments
22. Why public lands must remain in public hands (fieldandstream.com)
237 points by diebir on May 3, 2017 | 179 comments
23. The alarming state of secure coding neglect (oreilly.com)
169 points by jgrahamc on May 3, 2017 | 103 comments
24. Resurrecting the CDC 6500 Supercomputer [pdf] (ieee.org)
57 points by Katydid on May 3, 2017 | 18 comments
25. Miranda: A non-strict functional language with polymorphic types (1985) [pdf] (psu.edu)
95 points by tjalfi on May 3, 2017 | 37 comments
26. International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees (github.com/basecamp)
381 points by slyall on May 3, 2017 | 386 comments
27. Using NeuralNets to make smooth character animations (techcrunch.com)
154 points by adikus on May 2, 2017 | 21 comments
28. How Three Kids with No Experience Beat Square and Translated Final Fantasy V (kotaku.com)
161 points by wallflower on May 3, 2017 | 95 comments
29. Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets (smithsonianmag.com)
74 points by gricardo99 on May 2, 2017 | 4 comments
30. With latency as low as 25ms, SpaceX to launch broadband satellites in 2019 (arstechnica.com)
272 points by jseliger on May 3, 2017 | 171 comments

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